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Natalie Jeremiienko's approach to "new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation", is driven towards aiding environmental health. Her small actions and innovations have a significant effects to the surroundings which helps improve the environmental health of the surroundings people live in. She resides in NewYork and is active their performing small acts and innovations which help generate an eco-mind shift in the local surroundings, which in turn bring about a socio-cultural impacts. She also encourages the young with her work and makes it fun for them as they would be the future carrying on such acts and innovations and they are the ones to live in future environments.

For example is the tadpole test, with which when one puts a tadpole in water due to their sensitivity to water pollutants they re-act in certain ways. This small yet effective test can change and help us monitor the water around us which includes what we drink. Another example would be of the hot air (solar) chimney filter which helps filter out harmful pollutants that destroy the air around us. Such examples help people in their daily lives.

Two fascinating things I found on HowITsMade are : The making of Gelato is fascinating. As the milk ingredients come in a mix and are delivered to the store daily. the mix is a combination of both organic and inorganic materials. The family each works on different components from washing and cutting the ingredients, taking orders and listening to messages. the ingredients are poured into a batch freezer which are churned which gives the gelato it's smooth texture. The gelato is then squeezed into plastic bags after 15 min. This produces the gelato we all love.

Another food item is Jelly beans which I like. They can take up to ten days to make. A machine called a mogul delivers the heated jelly bean mix into molds. Each tray has 1260 impressions of the jelly bean shape, which gives the heated jellyean its shape. Then corn starch is applied and then shaken off the jelly bean. Later the beans are put into a drum where the flavors and colours are added. The flavoring and colouring process is repeated 4 times. The beans are then sent to the stamp pad where they receive their iconic 'jelly belly' stamp and are presented to jelly bean lovers like me.

The importance of knowing how stuff is made is not emphasized enough as this is th only way we can truly figure out on to better design and make stuff that will help the environment health. With any knowledge of the production processes involved it is barely possible to pin point and correct the negatives of that design and hence barring us from improving it and making it more efficient. Just by knowing how certain things are made for example a Car, one can know exactly where and how it can be improved to lessen its weight and lower its emissions in order to protect the environment more and also it brings about the importance of recycling once one finds out the amount of material put in a car. Therefore breaking down the processes really helps and that is what HowItsMade does and provides a guide to the layman on how things are made and helps them think on ways to re design them for the better.